Supporting structure for plants

Claim 1

A structure for supporting growing plants comprising a rotatable container assembly, means for rotating said assembly, a plurality of elongated vertically disposed illuminating means for illuminating the plants, and a base assembly resting on a flat surface and supporting the container assembly and the illuminating means, the container assembly holding the growing plants and moving with respect to the illuminating means in regularly recurring fashion so as to effect substantially uniform illuminating of all plants held in the container assembly, said container assembly comprising a plurality of trays including a vertical periphery and a bottom to form an enclosure for holding soil for supporting growing plants and a central vertically disposed support rod rotatably mounted on the base assembly and supporting the trays in a vertically spaced relation on the rod for rotation about a horizontal plane, said base assembly comprising a flat base plate and support means extending upwardly therefrom which support said illuminating means outside the periphery of the trays, said illuminating means extending upwardly substantially throughout the vertical extent of said container assembly, whereby the illuminating means illuminates the plants held in the trays.